Children dressed as Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, share a light moment at Shaniwarwada on the eve of Children’s Day or Bal Diwas on Tuesday. November 14 is celebrated as Children’s Day to mark the birth anniversary of Nehru. (Pratham Gokhale/HT Photo)

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November 14 is celebrated as Children’s Day to mark the birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India. (Pratham Gokhale/HT Photo)

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Women during the Chhath puja celebration at Chinchwad ghat on Tuesday. The four-day festival includes rigorous rituals such as holy bathing, fasting and offering prayers and food to the rising and setting sun. (HT PHOTO)

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Chhath Puja is a festival dedicated to the Sun God, and his wife Usha. The festival is celebrated in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. Internationally it is celebrated in Nepal and Mauritius. Women during the Chhath puja celebration at Chinchwad ghat on Tuesday. (HT PHOTO)

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An anti-spitting drive at Mhasoba gate chowk in Shivajinagar on Monday. The objective behind the punishment is to send across a message to people that when offenders are made to clean their own spit, they will feel ashamed and think twice before spitting on the streets again, said Dnyaneshwar Molak, Pune municipal corporation solid waste management department chief. (SANKET WANKHADE/HT PHOTO)

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The decision to tell offenders to mop and clean their spit was taken after the Pune municipal corporation authorities found that monetary fine was inadequate to check the menace of spitting. (SANKET WANKHADE/HT PHOTO)

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A violator mopping up his spit during a drive at Mhasoba gate chowk, Shivajinagar on Monday. (SANKET WANKHADE/HT PHOTO)

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(From right) Dilip Valse Patil, member of the Maharashtra legislative assembly; Girish Bapat; guardian minister and Sharad Pawar , president of the Nationalist Congress Party tour Dattatray Walse Patil multi-specialty eye hospital after inaugurating it in Bopodi on Sunday. This project is said to be a one-of- its kind as this is the first eye care hospital being built by the local health body of a corporation in India. The hospital will be run in a private-public partnership with Vision Next foundation”, said Dr Ambarish Darak, chief of the hospital and Vision Next foundation, a charitable trust. (HT PHOTO)

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Friends and family members paying their last respects to veteran theatre and Marathi film actor Lalan Sarang at Balgandharva Rang Mandir on Saturday. The actor passed away on Friday at Joshi Hospital in Pune where she was hospitalised for a month for multiple ailments, according to her son Rakesh Sarang. Lalan Sarang was 79 years old. (SANKET WANKHADE/HT PHOTO)

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Men try to tame a decorated buffalo at Ganesh peth, Dudh Bhatti during ‘Sagar’, a tradition followed by the Gawli community on the occasion of Bhau Beej/Bhai Dooj­. It is a festival similar to Raksha Bandhan. (Pratham Gokhale/HT Photo)